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Allowances extended to Armed Forces - High Altitude Allowance, Field Area / Modified Field Area Allowance, Counter Insurgency Allowance etc which are paid based on risks and hardships involved at a location/ in an operation

The Union government decided not to impose a Rs 10,000 per month cap on educational concession to children of Armed forces officers and personnel below officer ranks (PBORs) either killed or missing or permanently disabled in action.

Even as the Central government and the three armed forces chiefs are trying to sort out a dispute over the new pay grades for the army, navy and the air force, the central government has planned a temporary payment for the armed forces.

Reliable sources conveyed Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told a high-level meeting at the MoD on March 22 that the stance of the ministry should be categorical on the issues of status, pay and allowances for the armed forces.

Defence personnel are at a great disadvantage in respect of pay, pension and medical benefits compared with civilian government employees - Frontline Article
OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, EX-SERVICEMEN have been agitating against the…